
The Nature of Things
Lucretius(Author)
WW Norton & Co (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 17. November 1977
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-393-09094-9 (ISBN)
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Description
This great poem stands with Virgil's Aeneid as one of the vital and enduring achievements of Latin literature. Lost for more than a thousand years, its return to circulation in 1417 reintroduced dangerous ideas about the nature and meaning of existence and helped shape the modern world.
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Edition
Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
227 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-09094-9 (9780393090949)
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Titus Lucretius Carus-Lucretius-was a Roman poet and philosopher (ca. 99 BC - ca. 55 BC). His only known work is an epic philosophical poem laying out the beliefs of Epicureanism, De rerum natura, translated into English as On the Nature of Things. Frank O. Copley was a preeminent translator of Latin. His publications include Catallus: The Complete Poetry; Plautus: Menaechmi, Mostellaria, Rudens; Vergil: The Aeneid and Lucretius's On the Nature of Things.